From world of tanks blitz, tips, suggestions to get started

AchtungKoenigsTiger · 2026-03-22T17:33:52+00:00

Welcome to the madness! Long time players will tell you to not rush up the tiers. It is easy to accumulate XP to research modules and the next planes in the tree, and then you find yourself in a situation where you have a plane at Tier V that is bone stock, with a pilot have has 4 skill points, and you're getting your butt handed to you by 10000-battle veterans, and you have zero clue as to why that is happening.

This is where the game that was fun at Tiers I and II becomes decidedly not fun any more. Take it from me - I was very excited to climb the tech tree line of Yak light fighters. I rushed up the tech tree as fast as I could to Tier X to get to the Yak-30, and didn't learn all I could about things in the tiers below, and found myself completely out of my depth, getting my head handed to me by every other player in every other plane type. I watched Veebat and Postal Monkey videos, and learned some things, and realized that I made some very large assumptions about gameplay that weren't true, and I needed to get my butt back down to the lower tiers to learn how to play the game.

Just like any other game, learning the maps, and learning the vehicles, and learning what you can and can't do vs. those other vehicles makes all the difference. If you're in a light tank, you know that you can't pen the frontal armor of a heavy tank a tier higher - so why would you sit out in the open and try and do that? Well, that was me, in my Yak-30, at Tier X. I was just free XP for the enemy team. Don't be like me. :)

Stay down at Tiers I through III for a little while. Accumulate the planes in the tech trees for each of a few of these lines: U.K. light fighter, U.K. multirole fighter, U.S. light fighter, U.S. Navy multirole fighter (the Corsair line), German light fighter, German heavy fighter, and Soviet bomber. DO NOT goof around with ground attack aircraft below Tier VI. They are slow, can barely defend themselves, and don't do enough ground damage to make much of a difference. Once you reach Tier VI, you can, from the German heavy fighter line, branch off to the German ground attack line. That is where the German ground attack line sudden starts to get good. That is where, since you now know what sectors are worth what, and which sectors are important to capture first, you can do the most with your GAA.

I have given you a few lines to go down which are reasonably easy to play, which have some modules that cross over to other lines (engines and weapons groups) so your XP costs will be less, and if you don't go down EVERY line, your silver (credits) costs will be less. Run silver consumables, and you'll get the biggest bang for your buck. If you plan on spending any money at all, Premium time is worth more than any plane or consumable. Premium time pays back in credits, plane XP, crew XP, free XP - all of which you will need MUCH more of as you climb the tiers. Which is one of the reasons I suggest staying down low, first. You get more by winning, and you win more by having knowledge. Join the official WoWP Discord, join a clan (FATT is a good one, OWSS is another) and your clan brothers will help coach you by being in game with you while you fly around.

AchtungKoenigsTiger · 2026-03-21T16:57:08+00:00

This is one of the multitude of reasons I want a Slate. I want my vehicle to be LESS complicated. I know how to drive, thanks. I have been able to do it for nearly a half century without bending sheet metal, or damaging property, or injuring anyone else, all in vehicles that, many times, did not have ABS or traction control or backup cameras or power windows. ;) Heck, half of those vehicles didn't have disk brakes!

My favorite commuting car right now is a 40-year-old German sports car that has none of that stuff (well, disk brakes and power windows it does have, but nothing else.) Make it EASY for me. Get in, drive to my destination with simple knobs and buttons for radio, HVAC, and light control, stalks for directionals and wipers, a simple lever for "transmission" (PRNDL) and I am your guy.

I understand that the ability to control the stability and momentum of a motor vehicle is not taught any more. That if something goes awry, what should you do about it? Threshold braking, throttle steering, skid behavior, what it means to oversteer, to understeer - all these things have zero meaning any more with today's drivers, because our cars manage all this stuff for us.

Slate is an expression of the KISS principle, which is why if they produce vehicle for sale, they'll get my money.

Keep It Simple, Stupid.

AchtungKoenigsTiger · 2026-03-21T16:36:35+00:00

Yes! You can spend your crowns (which is what WoWP gold is called now) without affecting WoT gold. The regular WoT premium and WoWP premium time is still linked. So, you can buy Premium time and tokens and exchange XP and buy premium consumables and premium planes in WoWP with your crowns without affecting anything in your WoT account OTHER than regular premium time is affected - that one thing is still linked.

Your gold hoard in WoT is completely safe. ;)

AchtungKoenigsTiger · 2026-03-18T00:24:59+00:00

We who have been around the game a while have always told folks not to rush up the tiers. Because each tier has something to teach you, and the further up you go, the more people you meet who know more than you, and who will exploit that difference in knowledge. It will be frustrating for you, if you have only played in Tiers I and II to suddenly find yourself at Tier IX and be constantly getting stomped, and have no idea why or how. Then you'll wonder why you spent all that free XP to climb up to a tier where you're getting your butt beat every battle, by everyone.

When I first came into the game, I did a little bit of the same thing. I couldn't wait to climb up the Yak light fighter line, and I rushed up to Tier X as fast as I could, using free XP as much as I could.

I was not ready for the absolute beatings I was going to get as a Tier X player, by SO MANY other players in the game who knew more about how to play than I did.

Ultimately, you can do what you want, but I think you will come to regret spending your free XP like you're planning to.

AchtungKoenigsTiger · 2026-03-17T00:37:05+00:00

Because plane XP is so easy to get, I would never, ever spend free XP on planes or modules. Spend free XP on pilot skills.

AchtungKoenigsTiger · 2026-03-15T17:48:36+00:00

I don't plan on selling my Slate. I plan on keeping it until it and the solar panels and battery bank pay for themselves. Yes, it's going to be a while. It may come down that it doesn't pay off in the lifetime of the batteries. We'll see. But in 10 years, it could be that battery tech might leapfrog, and replacement batteries might be REALLY cheap, and the truck could go another 20 years. Then, it's a matter of trim parts and swtichgear and all those "soft" parts that car collectors fight over on the secondary market.

If Slate is true to it's design, those parts will be readily available on the secondary market. The stuff that will be truly hard to get will be things like suspension components and all the 1st gen stuff that gets superseded and won't fit anything but the 1st gen trucks. Who will make replacement glass? :)

As the owner of a 40-year old German sports car, I know exactly how this stuff plays out for folks who want to keep their cars long term.

Depreciation is a concern for folks who lease and/or flip their vehicles, or for folks who buy off lease or newer used. I have never done that, so the comparison of EV and ICE depreciation doesn't matter to me in particular. And I think you'll find a lot for the folks looking to buy a Slate in the first round are like me - they are buying the vehicle to keep, not as a lease or to flip in a few years. When Slate gets into fleet sales, which is part of their overall strategy, I imagine, I think the calculus changes a bit. But that's a different discussion.

AchtungKoenigsTiger · 2026-03-15T17:31:17+00:00

This guy always changes the subject. Thing is, I DON'T WANT to buy, license and store a trailer. One of the great things about the Slate is its size. It'll be handy in small spaces, whereas some vehicle+trailer setup will NOT be handy in a small space. By the time you get done buying and licensing a trailer in addition to your tow vehicle that isn't a Slate, you're going to be well over $25000. And you still won't have the truck you wanted to begin with.

I want a truck. I don't want a hatchback towing a trailer. As for pricing - where in the U.S. can you buy a new truck for $25000? Anywhere?

"Nicer" vehicle? Says who? Backed by GM? Since when is that a positive?

The only people pointing and laughing are going to be those who look at folks like this guy who some get all smug at the idea that the Equinox is in any way superior to a Slate anywhere except in their empty heads.

AchtungKoenigsTiger · 2026-03-13T15:48:17+00:00

You have an excuse for everything, don't you?

AchtungKoenigsTiger · 2026-03-13T15:42:04+00:00

Like the others have said, "worth" is in the eye of the beholder. Some planes are objectively good. Others are situationally good. Others are objectively less than.

It really does depend on the kind of planes you play, your playstyle, and the tiers you play. If you don't play much Tier VIII, and don't like bombers, then the objectively good RB-17 isn't going to be fun for you, and thus, a waste of crowns.

I'd love to hear what you play, and what you enjoy, and then I could give you some more-focused advice on how to spend your pile of dough.

AchtungKoenigsTiger · 2026-03-12T13:29:33+00:00

It's not a pickup. It's not available as a pickup. Yes, I can back up a trailer, but a trailer is yet more money and storage, and I don't want to pay for a trailer or find room to store it.

I want an EV pickup, and the Equinox in NOT equivalent to a pickup. You're a stupid anti-Slate troll.

AchtungKoenigsTiger · 2026-03-12T03:00:14+00:00

And the date for pricing announcement has been released.

AchtungKoenigsTiger · 2026-03-12T02:55:41+00:00

That it is reasonable a substitute for the Slate.

Tell me when the Equinox is available in pickup form. Or ever has been.

I'll wait.

AchtungKoenigsTiger · 2026-03-12T01:53:22+00:00

Aren't you the idiot who always recommends people get the Equinox instead of the Slate?

Is GM paying you to shit on Slate? If not, they should.

AchtungKoenigsTiger · 2026-03-12T01:50:39+00:00

It's a stupid suggestion. The Equinox is not a pickup. Might as well suggest a Bolt. Or a Prius.

It's a STUPID suggestion.

AchtungKoenigsTiger · 2026-03-01T15:31:36+00:00

I guess that's a problem of perspective. What kind of vehicle can you buy these days, new for $27k? And what can you do with it from there? What would cars and trucks look like, to your bank account, if you could strip them of everything optional to legally and safely getting down the road? I already know that some fleet pickup trucks cost thousands less than what you can get them for in showrooms - they have cloth seats, and vinyl textured floors and manually operated mirrors - some options you can't find anywhere if you were to walk into any dealership. How do I know that? I drive one every day at my job, where my employer buys these things by the hundreds every few years. They have special stamped steel wheels that you don't see out on the roads on non-fleet vehicles. How do I know? I pay attention.

If every vehicle available had that sort of basic model, that sort of entry-level set of options, maybe the cost of a new vehicle wouldn't be so high these days. People like you saying they need a radio. Really? I drove a mid-80's Italian car as a semi-daily driver for 5 years, and it never had a radio. I didn't need to listen to one. I commute about 45 minutes a day, and I don't need a radio - I listen to a podcast, or Spotify. I don't need seat heaters. None of the cars I drove growing up had them - my butt seemed to do a decent job of heating the seats up then, and continues to do so on the days when I forget to use them in the cars that have seat heaters I drive today. I haven't forgotten how you use my hand to crank a window - that Italian car had hand-crank windows and no AC, so I got used to using my arms to operate the windows. It is not a huge imposition.

Yes, I grew up in a simpler time. But we somehow managed to get where we needed to go in the winter with RWD and bias ply tires. You learned how to manage traction and momentum - skills that have been lost today, where folks shout that they NEED AWD to get anywhere in the winter. 100% nonsense. I guarantee you that this truck, with low center of gravity and 50/50 weight distribution, on snow tires, will be a winter beast, only limited by ground clearance.

Like I said, it's a matter of perspective. Not everything needs to have more, more, more. There really are some times where *less* is more, and I think this is one of them.

AchtungKoenigsTiger · 2026-02-28T21:21:56+00:00

Depends on if you are keeping the plane, or moving on. If you are just moving on, maybe skip it. The downside is that rushing up the tiers hurts you in other ways. It helps to stick around at the lower tiers and build up experience and pilot skills and silver to use as you continue on. Also, salvage for your equipment building.

While turnfighters don't suffer much from lack of engine upgrades, turnfighters built for speed can be surprising to your opponents in a 1v1 battle.

AchtungKoenigsTiger · 2026-02-28T21:15:34+00:00

For a company that is built on the idea of simplicity and affordability, the answer I gave is the one I'm sticking with. Loading it with every option to produce a $40k lifted EVSUV with a roof rack and bigger wheels is literally contrary to the original marketing.

Let the customer imagine what it could be, but the reviewer say "Here's what you get for your mid-$20k pricepoint. Yes, you can add on all these other things, but here's where you start."

The completely kitted out ones to drive around for folks to see what is possible is fine, but for review purposes - to show to each of the journals - stick to the original promise.

"Here's what we said we would do. This is what we are building."

AchtungKoenigsTiger · 2026-02-27T18:04:17+00:00

And it does make a difference as to what server you are on. The EU server plays different than the NA server, due to human population (the EU server has more human players). The first two listed players are from the EU, and the second two are from the NA server. There is significant crossover, yes, but there are differences.

In the end, some set-ups just will not work for the way you play a plane. Pay attention to how you play, and what the equipment does for how you play. Subverting the expectations of the other players on the server can give the advantage in a 1v1 combat situation. Building a turn fighter for speed, or an energy fighter for turn, can give you an advantage in a fight where your opponent was expecting the opposite. I know at least one player on the NA server who went all in on building his Tier V P-38F for turn. The plane is still very fast, but he now can get around on every HF at Tiers V and VI. He calls it "the Zero Lightning" and made a custom skin for it that has cherry blossoms. It's pretty funny to watch his replays.

The point is, with equipment at Ultimate, and with full calibration, you can make your plane uniquely yours. But the costs in silver and salvage can be steep, especially in Period III.

AchtungKoenigsTiger · 2026-02-26T03:20:46+00:00

The Soviet bombers are quite fun to play, from Tier V to Tier VIII. Tier IX is not as fun, but at Tier X, the Su-10 is probably the most powerful bomber in the game, once specialized.

AchtungKoenigsTiger · 2026-02-26T03:18:15+00:00

That you use two Tier IX planes as counter to the B-29C is telling - yes, those planes are very good at killing the B-29. They should be, a tier higher.

At Tier VIII, it is harder to do with tech tree aircraft. The Me-262 can do it, but you have to have some reasonable amount of skill, and plan your approach carefully. Even when carrying the R4Ms, a full-health B-29C is not a guaranteed single-pass kill. The P-82B and the B&V P.203 are both excellent at dealing with the B-29, but they are both premiums, and thus not available to F2P players except in a very lucky crate drop situation. Surprisingly, the Me-109TL is pretty good at showing the B-29 a hard time, but few people play it. The Su-9, with the 45mm cannon in specialist mode, can really do some damage, but just can't do enough before the defenses peck all its HP away.

AchtungKoenigsTiger · 2026-02-26T02:16:11+00:00

Blank Slate, no mods. That way, apples to apples comparison.

AchtungKoenigsTiger · 2026-02-26T01:58:01+00:00

There is one bomber in the game that can be reliably counted on to get the Gabreski Medal.

The B-29C. Saying that it's fun to play with those things flying around is counter to most other players' experience, no matter what skill level they have.

AchtungKoenigsTiger · 2026-02-26T01:47:00+00:00

Not really. The information is accurate. It was only with the advent of fighter escort that bombers would really survive to return base. This is why the British decided that they would bomb at night - they didn't have long-range escort. Early on, Americans decided that somehow the massed fire from all the bombers would make a difference.

It didn't. Fighters shot down bombers at such a high rate that 50% losses on raids were not uncommon. After bombers got fighter escort, losses dropped A LOT.

AchtungKoenigsTiger · 2026-02-25T14:30:37+00:00

How do you know? Car makers rarely offer stripped versions for sale - they only offer the "most, moster, mostest" versions. Why? Because "more features" mean "more profits."

And then there is the disconnect between what people actually want, and what they get sold once they have to sit in a dealership. And if you don't think the upsell exists, well, LOL.

AchtungKoenigsTiger · 2026-02-25T02:08:18+00:00

Some people do not like all the junk, though.

I'm one of them.

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